I'm François DANIS
My time is shared between crafting micro-magic props, and cabinet works, since the last 18 years. Before I had worked as a logistic manager for a french company specialized in supply chains. Then one day I decided to live from my first passion : woodworking. I also do many restorations jobs on old magic props for some collectors, and of course on classic french pieces of furnitures from the 18th & 19th centuries.
My passion for cabinet working / woodworking comes from my grand-father who was a very good cabinet maker of profession. He had a beautiful workshop filled with handtools, pieces of furnitures half built....Well all the things you could find in the classic shop of a cabinet maker. I am still working in my everyday work with all this handtools, planes, chisels, saws....
BECAUSE A BOX IS THE BEGINING OF MYSTERY
Don't wonder too much , just let enter the magic
I am also fascinated by the work of the Great Craftsmen such as Eddy Taytelbaum, Toni Lackner, Herbert Martin Paufler, my friend Willi Wessel, Alan Warner, Clarence Miller...I have quite an interesting collection. I think there are genius and cleverness in the work of these gentlemen. Their work, their care for details, are a source of example and inspiration for me. Their love and passion show in their work. And I think these are the too more important tools in the toolbox of every magic builder : Love & Passion. Without them our work would be without any soul, any charm, and we would produced props without any interest. A magic prop, according to, me must be "eyes appealing", must be not common, at first sight you must think: "Waou ! This item must contained some kind of magic!"
As far as I remember, my first contact with magic happened during a Christmas ( as many of us), when I found under the Xmas tree a beautiful box of magic tricks. I think I was around six.
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